If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?

Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.

J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.